The Publishing Self: The Praxis of Self-Publishing in a Mediatised Era

Coming out of Thurston’s experience with the writers’ collective and independent small press Information As Material, this chapter points toward five things. First, how we might distinguish certain kinds of self-publishing by the way in which they problematise the subject-status of the self at work. Second, how the digital mediatisation of writing technologies outside the context of the language arts is casting some kind of technical foreshadow in front of new writing generally. Third, what might be interesting about recontextualising our experiences of mediatised media as literature or art. Fourth, how those aesthetic possibilities beg the question, ‘but what kind of realism is it?’ And finally, how the critical frameworks with which we attend to acts of publishing need to shift from analysing objects to analysing processes.